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5/6/2013 12:29PM

Eye Health: Why 40 Years of Age Is the Magic Number

40 years of age is the magic number when things start going wrong with our eyes. Missy Sullivan joins Lunch Break with a look at the latest expert thinking on nutrition and vitamin supplements to improve the odds. Photo: Getty Images.

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... I ... welcome back to lunch break I'm Kelli Grant unfortunately gray hairs and wrinkles skin aren't the only things to look forward to when it comes to aging new research suggests that when it comes to ... help forty is the magic number for everything to start going wrong ... joining me now with the latest advice on how to keep your eyes healing is Missy Sullivan Pursell Journal Missy thanks for being here ... so forty notches over the hill but problematic when it comes to I how what why is that that the number to watch out for low forties it's been almost everyone's been afflicted by something called the GOP and ... that is essentially when you start doing this stuff I ... um the ... the ... when you're I can flex claim is will you can see near and far and sometimes ... I think it's a bad sign and I'm thirty and I'm doing that already have the reading glasses set yes and that sex you're going to be up to be an option ... and now ... when people are are starting to experience a so what is certainly the stinking MC comes to things like the plague of inside me he is ... dealing with this or preventing and ... there are sometimes out there now that are specifically aimed at on how they some contests ... aam one of the conditions Mac energy generation for example ... if you take this vitamin that has ... a vitamin C vitamin E beta carotene in St ... aam there been studies that show that they can actually reduce the risk of Mac that each generation to twenty five percent that's where you start to lose your bear to see fine teeth now ... and in you mention beta carotene and I know that that's the old one still gt a lot of carrots and Kruger vision does nutrition health care ... Yep it's not all carrots all the time quite the way we were taught us theory on this ... but I'm certainly for some um um Formica de Generation leafy green vegetables can help once he got it ... aam also ... basically you love us think omega three fatty acids in fish oils ... your around knives ... and to ... essentially that the leaking ... I mean you mentioned just asserted that the jester we all had a note that in Billy to focus on things that are near you were talking but in fact I'm guessing this is the point we really say I shouldn't be sitting in front of the computer all day anymore were leased ... to try to counteract the ... gas now and and so many missing from the computer all day long and what what you don't want to lock it went into effect at the same distance all the time so this with the cover twenty twenty twenty rule ... and that is ... after twenty minutes of the just looking at the computer distance you wanna ... be fix your gaze at something that's at least twenty feet away ... and then what's the bottom line for people better worried at this point whether you're forty thirty whatever age how do you better protect you it's the by line is to really focus on overall health issues one folks on your dial you wanna get enough sleep you wanna quit smoking that can have a big effect on your on health as well ... I accept ... full people have more on that in tomorrow's paper and I know and can it be reading that very carefully with ... possibly some new reading glasses so thank you for joining us thank you